Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

I like the idea of a large transatlantic DC power cable. That would enable solar power to be distributed around the world. It would reduce the need to depend on batteries for wind and solar. Of course, you raise #3, so it would be a target for sabotage like with Nordstream. It would be

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

What you are missing includes 1) Disposal of long term hazardous nuclear waste. 2) Problems in maintaining / decommissioning ol older nuclear fission plants 3) Examples like we are seeing Ukraine's nuclear plants caught up in a war. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:59 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Ok

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

I am a longtime proponent of fission for energy. For a few months in the late 60s I worked for Westinghouse Advanced Reactors Division. Specifically I did accident analysis for sodium cooled fast breeder reactors. We concluded that a sodium fire was the worst case accident. For pressurized water

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

Gotcha! I don't know man. You can swim in the same water used to cool rods because water close to the rods blocks neutrons. My concern about the DOE putting so many eggs in the fusion basket and ignoring the day to day year to year. Breeder reactors as a proven reliable start aren't without

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

I am a long-time environmentalist (I think I joined the Wilderness Society in the early 60’s) and I opposed fission power plants because of safety issues and because of the long-lived waste products. My feeling is that even if you make the probability of a screw-up very low, given 10,000

[FRIAM] yet another global warming thread

Ok so my brain hurts a little now. We as humans in the very least accelerated climate change because to many carbons is bad. ok cool. got that. -Fusion is the new hotness. And here we have the problem: What's with avoiding research into if matter/antimatter would be practical? -Fusion (for now) is

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

Ok so this is cool and all. Sigh I'll ask *that* question. We want less carbons because the planet is on f'n fire . As far as I know humans (in the very least) accelerated climate change. Ie we made this mess clean it up. ok fair so far I'm following.